Film footage taken on January 13, 1976 by WAFB television in Baton Rouge. This file has three segments: Overturned tanker on approach to Mississippi River Bridge, I-10 west bound (00:00-00:48), Steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi River in Baton...

Mystic Krewe of Apollo, Baton Rouge, La. Bal Masque reservation card for the Captain's Party, the Royal Breakfast, and King and Queen's luncheon. Events took place January 25 through January 27 of 1985.

North Boulevard. Four men identified as Black Muslims stand atop a car as the block the street prior to a shootout between blacks and police that left two officers and one black dead. January 10, 1972. Baton Rouge, La.

Reverend Lionel Lee, Sr. (January 1, 1930- July 25, 2001). Past Secretary General of the Fourth District Missionary Baptist Church, was pastor of Shady Grove, Evening Star and St. Joseph Baptist Churches. He was a prolific writer, and an active...

Archivist Melissa Eastin will explore how the 1924 political campaign of Eudora Day, widow of Sheriff Robert Day, was launched and how the struggle between the Democratic Party, and the Ku Klux Klan and women's suffrage played a role in the most...

The Tug Boat Istrouma and her crew. Bought by the company in 1915 and used as a fire tug, it was retired from Esso Service in 1949. During its career, the boat and her crew helped to fight such memorable fires as the Great Kress Fire and the...

Sylvia was born on January 6 in Bryan, TX, while her father was a professor at Texas A&M, in 1933. She lived in Lafayette for 10 years and later moved to Los Angeles, CA in 1945. She graduated from UCLA. in 1953, was accepted into its law school,...

Born as Pearl Brown in Baton Rouge on October 24, 1934, her father left the family when she was 9 years old and she and her three siblings were raised by their mother Florence. Instilled with self sufficiency and personal pride, George went on to...